Category Archives: World
Back-to-back powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela, causing widespread damage
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, causing widespread damage, collapsing buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets. The ...
Jun 24, 2026
Trump-endorsed de la Espriella declared winner of Colombia’s presidential runoff election
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia's next president after electoral authorities on Wednesday declared him the wi...
Jun 24, 2026
White House seeks $87.6B from Congress for Iran war costs, US farmers and Ebola response
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House has formally requested $87.6 billion mostly to replenish the Pentagon after the U.S. war against Iran, submitting the request to Congress at a politically difficult t...
Jun 24, 2026
White House asks Congress for $87.6B for Iran war, aid to US farmers and responding to Ebola crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House has formally requested $87.6 billion mostly to replenish the Pentagon after the U.S. war against Iran, submitting the request to Congress at a politically difficult t...
Jun 24, 2026
A member of the cultlike Zizians group is charged in the killings of her parents in Pennsylvania
A member of the cultlike group known as Zizians has been charged with murder in the shooting of her parents at their Pennsylvania home on her 30th birthday, and a prosecutor said Wednesday she wasn't ...
Jun 24, 2026
Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote
A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump's administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show...
Jun 24, 2026
Rural area in Northern California jolted by its biggest quake since 1940, but no damage reported
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A rural area of Northern California experienced its strongest earthquake since 1940 on Wednesday morning, but it caused only mild shaking with no immediate reports of damage or in...
Jun 24, 2026
Senate Republicans hold new vote on war powers after Trump berated them at Capitol meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans who were berated by President Donald Trump on Wednesday over opposition to his war in Iran held a late-night vote to try to appease him, voting down a war powers r...
Jun 24, 2026
Camp Mystic files for bankruptcy after catastrophic Texas floods killed 28 people at the girls' camp
DALLAS (AP) - Camp Mystic filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Wednesday, nearly a year after catastrophic floods killed 25 campers and two teenage counselors at the Christian camp for gi...
Jun 24, 2026
Chief of staff to former NYC Mayor Eric Adams, 3 others charged in federal bribery probe
NEW YORK (AP) - A chief of staff to former New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been charged with accepting more than $100,000 in bribes to steer a city contract for emergency housing for migrants to a ...
Jun 24, 2026
